Many times this question pops in my mind and many others. Obviously if it’s more to do with representing objects such as a car or a person, then we use objects as it’s a more “proper” way of doing it. However if we just want to keep a set of... View Article
Every time I see an IT team with small minuscule 17 inch or even 15 inch, a question always pops in my mind: “how do they manage to do any work?”. It’s not about being picky or having the ability to brag. It’s all about productivity. My machines at home and office all... View Article
Most people, beginners and professionals alike find regular expressions sometimes confusing, perhaps because developers do not really use this in their everyday development. As of the time this post was written, there were about 53000 questions in stackoverflow concerning regular expressions in some repect; surely this points out how many... View Article
This is a first post of our series “back to basic”. We understand that there are always people starting out to be developers such as first year university students or just experienced developers wanting to revisit the basic. The aim of this series is exactly that, revisiting programming concepts using... View Article
It’s weekend night, so perhaps a it wouldn’t hurt to do some window browser shopping. A few weeks ago I posted a post about the importance of keyboard and mice in your workplace, this time I’ll share some of the products that I really considered getting. Hopefully this will help... View Article
I can’t help but to post this video, it’s really cool :) Plus it’s almost weekend too today. Enjoy! Doctor who in 16-bit SNES like goodness! You’ll need to view the full article to see the video. Tweet Vote on HN
A lot of companies have implemented firewalls and closed off direct external internet access for security reasons. This results in developers going through proxy servers (internal to the company) in order to access external websites. Normally, these proxy server can be configured through the OS global configuration or through individual... View Article
Before we look at the code snippets, yes there is no such thing as associative array in JavaScript, they are all objects. But really, a lot of people search for “how do we get JavaScript associative array length?” so I might as well publish this short post. So say we have an... View Article
Anyone who has bought the 128GB or even 256GB MacBook Pro will eventually know how precious disk space really is. The common solution is of course moving off the unneeded files such as music, books, etc to external storage such as usb hard drive or usb drive sticks. The problem is, if... View Article
If I remembered correctly during my university years there were very little reasoning provided for adhering to code standards apart from the occasional fear that we might lose mark. This is not the right attitude to be taught to budding programmers, it lacks the long term reasoning of software maintenance.... View Article